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Naturalisation as a British Citizen – A wide discretion

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission has given an open judgment in relation to the statutory review of decisions by the Secretary of State to refuse applications for citizenship by relatives of Bashar Al-Assad, in the case of LA, MA, RA,

QOCS and Counterclaims

There have been two recent conflicting decisions regarding the recoverability of costs where a claimant has been faced with a counterclaim.

In Ketchion v McEwan, HHJ Freedman held that the losing defendant had QOCS protection against all of the …

Court of Appeal considers failure to enrol biometrics

In R (on the application of) Jayaraman v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 2545 (15 November 2018), Peter Jackson LJ (with Sharp LJ’s agreement) considered the requirement to provide biometric information for an application …

Avoid a contractual own goal – the importance of entire agreement clauses

Associate Michael Budd looks at the importance of clarity when drafting entire agreement clauses

The interpretation of entire agreement clauses has appeared before the courts once again, this time before the high court in the recent case of Al-Hasawi v …

Periodical payments and discount rates: Jersey – all change!

Draft proposals have been published in Jersey with a view to new law being introduced to change the way the discount rate is set.

Summary

Draft proposals have now been published by the States Greffe in Jersey (which provides support …